Saudi Arabian Army

The Saudi Arabian Army (KSA) is the largest branch of the armed forces of Saudi Arabia, with 225,000 troops. Spiritually formed on 13 January 1902, the army was really united in 1923 when Saudi Arabia was founded as a unified state under Ibn Saud, and the United States allied with Saudi Arabia on 14 February 1945 after oil was discovered in the Arabian Peninsula The Saudi military received US funding and training, and they fought alongside America in the Gulf War in 1990-91 (including the Battle of Khafji) and in the Yemeni Civil War after 2015, contributing ground troops to fight the Houthis on the kingdom's southern border. However, the Saudis took opposing sides at times, sending 3,000 troops to fight in the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948, 20,000 to Jordan during the Six-Day War of 1967, and 3,000 troops to Syria during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.